Why people blame others | Field Guide to Bad Behaviour
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Imagine your boss screws up – everyone screws up from time to time – but they blame you for their mistake. You could speak up, but most likely you’ll have to take the heat for something you never did – or blame it on someone else below you. This is often called the kick-the-dog effect. It seems like this is a natural psychological reaction most of us have. But that doesn’t mean we should do it. This is the first episode of my Field Guide to Bad Behaviour. Let’s take a journey into the wild to spot crappy behaviours and discuss how to manage or avoid them. In the challenge for survival in society, a human may use blame shifting, which is defined as the act of attributing a personal failure to another human or event. Camouflaging as an innocuous ...
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Imagine your boss screws up – everyone screws up from time to time – but they blame you for their mistake. You could speak up, but most likely you’ll have to take the heat for something you never did – or blame it on someone else below you. This is often called the kick-the-dog effect. It seems like this is a natural psychological reaction most of us have. But that doesn’t mean we should do it. This is the first episode of my Field Guide to Bad Behaviour. Let’s take a journey into the wild to spot crappy behaviours and discuss how to manage or avoid them. In the challenge for survival in society, a human may use blame shifting, which is defined as the act of attributing a personal failure to another human or event. Camouflaging as an innocuous ...
